Recent content by zev8910

Aphids are also small and green http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphid Mix up some dish soap and water, and spray them off the plants.

Approach it scientifically, changing one variable per batch. Try a different capper one batch (if you're using a wing capper, try a bench capper). Are you reusing the bottles from batch to batch? Are the same bottles giving the same results? Mark which bottles are flat and which gush, maybe...

last year, my hop shoots looked similar. i actually caught a rabbit in the act one night. sprayed the hops with a capsaicin based mammal deterrent every couple days for 2 weeks or so, until the shoots were over two foot tall and trained to the twine. after the shoots were trained and...

Pictures of my second years: Cascade - nearest to wooden privacy fence. Chinook - the inner row and sprouting picture. Between March 18: and April 18: they've put on about 12 feet! Boat winch at one end, eyes and latching hooks at the other. Only took about 30 minutes to tie off and...

i brewed the soba ale kit on new years day 2012. after 4 weeks of fermenting, it was bottled. i used 12 bombers (22oz) and the rest were 12oz bottles. kept them stored for 3 weeks before tasting the first one, and it was a little on the flat side, so i left alone a few more weeks. my basement...

Look for caramel instead of crystal. http://www.midwestsupplies.com/homebrewing-ingredients/grains/caramel-10l-briess.html

I grew cascade and chinook this year in st. louis mo. I planted 5 of each. The chinook definitely did better in the first year. Total was about 9 1/2 pounds wet weight. Forgot to get a dry weight before friends, family and fellow homebrewers started taking sacks of them home. very happy...